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I had the distinct pleasure of playing drums for a very talented and anointed worship leader this week, Miss Janelle Gmitter. Playing drums is the most lucid, natural musical expression of worship for me even though most people see me behind a guitar or piano. It's effortless, and therefore lends itself to a spiritual connection that's different than leading from the stage-center position.
As I was getting lost in the flow that Janelle was leading us in, it dawned on me: this moment of worshipping the Lord will never happen again. Sure, other opportunities will present themselves, but never precisely like this one.
My snowflake moments in life are becoming my most precious. How many snowflakes fall from the sky in northern New York in one storm alone? Untold billions, if not more. Yet it's statistically impossible for any two to ever be the same structurally.
The common occurrence of rare moments is one of God's most intentional conundrums.
By default we're creatures of habit. As people our efficiency excels with repetition. Yet without the infinite possibility of the random we'd be bound to the torture of the mundane.
No two people are the same, nor are the relationships we'll have with them.
No two works of art are exactly the same, nor are two work projects, two trips to the same destination, two dinners with friends, two encounters with God, with your spouse, or with your children.
I see my kids everyday, yet by virtue of their rapid growth I'll never have again what I have at the present.
Snowflakes may be common, but that single one over there is one of a kind.
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It is thus interesting whether the number of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) determines the load of psychological comorbidity. The Rome III criteria [internationally recognized criteria for diagnosing gastrointestinal illnesses] have not been used to evaluate such a relationship as yet. Moreover, not many studies have examined the sensitivity of the Rome III criteria in detecting IBS.
Our aims were therefore:
1. To determine whether those IBS participants with more FGID had a tendency to greater psychological comorbidity than those with fewer FGID; and
2. To assess the performance of the Rome III criteria in detecting IBS versus the diagnosis of the gastroenterologist.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 32 consecutive outpatients with clinically diagnosed IBS was performed. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Short Form 12 Health Survey (SF-12), and the Rome III criteria questionnaire (BDQ-6) were administered. Multiple linear regression was conducted to detect associations among FGID, anxiety, depression and quality of life.
Results: Overall, 50% of participants were anxious and 12% were depressed. Forty-four percent of participants had >two FGID; however, the number of FGID did not correlate with scores for anxiety, depression or quality of life.
Amazingly, only 50% (CI: 33-67) of participants clinically diagnosed with IBS met Rome III criteria for IBS.
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For scalability, a cloud application should be able to scale out by adding more instances. This approach also improves resiliency, because unhealthy instances can be removed from rotation.
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Please notice: wild camping is not allowed and will be strictly regulated. But in at some places there are free 'pole campings' ( Paalcamping ). This is a pole in the ground where you are allowed to stay for one night.
Hotels in the Netherlands are abundant, particularly in Holland proper, and can be relatively inexpensive compared to other Western European countries. You may be able to find a decent hotel of international standards for €50 or less per night. Due to good public transportation options, even staying outside of the city centre, or even in a different town altogether, may still be a viable option for visiting a particular destination comfortably while remaining within budget limits.
While there are independent properties throughout the country, there is a relatively high presence of international and local hotel chains. Some of the more popular are:
Other international hotel chains do maintain some presence in the Netherlands, though this is mostly limited to Amsterdam and Schiphol airport. There are also quite many Best Western-affiliated properties throughout Netherlands, but as in every country, they vary greatly in character, size, pricing and comfort.
There is a wide choice of bed breakfast in the big cities, but there are also plenty to be found in the smaller towns and villages. Prices are generally €40-100, depending on the number of occupants and the season. Bed breakfasts may not offer all the facilities that bigger hotels do, but the service is generally friendly and personal. Also, many bed breakfasts are to be found along popular hiking trails and cycling paths.
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Twice a month the nl10 magazine is distributed around the city. You can take your free copy at a lot of locations (like bars, supermarkets, municipal offices). Besides some articles about interesting things going on in town it also has a large listing of upcoming gigs (in Dutch). Their website can also be handy.
Rotterdam plays host to a lot of events, a lot of them yearly ones. Besides these there are a lot smaller ones that can be very nice, so ask around and check the VVV website. A few of these yearly events to name:
For full listings of events check Rotterdam.info and Use-it .
There are two huge megacinemas in Rotterdam. The one in the city centre is called Pathé Schouwburgplein (at the Schouwburgplein), the other one is on the southside of the city. It's called Pathé De Kuip (next to the Feyenoord stadium De Kuip). In these cinemas you can see Hollywood movies and occasionally an arthouse movie.
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A quick rundown of what the game looks like:
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April 3, 2015
You probably think I'm going to apologize for the incredible lack of updates lately. And while that's clearly something I'm not happy with (as you can see in recent comics), it's not the subject of this rant. (That said, I'm taking steps to remedy it. Life in Greg-land has been tough to get a handle on lately, and I need to do some readjusting to get things back on track.)
No, this is an apology for the extreme slowness of the site lately, something which I have been wrestling with, because I could not, for the life of me, figure out what was going on. I kept upping the RAM allocation on the VPS, and it kept saying it was maxed out. It's super weird.
And then this morning I got an e-mail from a reader letting me know that a TON of links were being inserted into the page at the very end. Which is, as you can imagine, pretty upsetting to hear. I downloaded the remote copy of the index file, and sure enough, near the end was a PHP command to dump the contents of a file on some random phony "Beats by Dre Hot Sale" page to all sorts of crazy links. No idea where it came from, but I killed it with extreme prejudice, and will be on the lookout for things like it in the future. That kind of stuff pisses me off, and I won't let it stand. Hopefully things will move faster from here on out.
Now if I could just get MYSELF to move faster, that'd be a neat trick. I wonder if I've got some weird links loading in me somewhere.
…I should probably go to the doctor to get checked. Just in case.
It's comin', folks!
June 10, 2014
Well, you know how it is around here. When I manage to go for (what I feel like) an extended time without a new comic, I feel like I have to justify myself a little bit. (Yes, despite the constant reassurance that I don't… I appreciate that, you guys. 😀 )
In any case, your boy's been under a LOT of stress lately, and had to kind of take this evening to deal with it a touch. Realized that what my main problem comes down to is some time management issues, so I'm going to be trying to handle that. It's my goal to actually make a 5-comic week here before too long, and maybe, JUST MAYBE, try to actually make that the norm again. I have a lot of fun doing the comic, but lately life has been saying "NO! THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT!", and I just wind up listening, 'cause life talks in all caps, so you just KNOW it's shouting.
That said, tomorrow, a comic shall be had! I've gotta re-prime the pump a bit, but I think this is a train that I can get back on track. Good lord that's a lot of mixed metaphors. In any case, all will be well. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. 🙂
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May 9, 2014
Hi Guys! So, normally around here, a missed day here or there wouldn't be cause for alarm or anything, but I got ONE comic done this week, which is pretty miserable. And while that kind of thing kills me, the fact is I know there's no avoiding it. Your boy's been sick the past few days, and the bummer about being sick when you're a stay-at-home parent who also happens to WORK from home is that it's not as though I can just take a sick day and call it good. So while NORMALLY I can burn the midnight oil like a boss and knock out a strip, I just fell asleep in my chair while trying to think of something, and being vertical is only serving to give me a headache.
I did get one worried e-mail a week or so ago (well, maybe not WORRIED, but still) just making sure I wasn't going to quit the comic, and while I may have the most sporadic update schedule known to man lately, you can rest assured with one thing: I NEVER plan to call it quits on this bad boy. It's like anything else in life – sometimes things get nuts and get in the way, and you have to do what you can to keep your head above water. But even if I miss more than my fair share, I'll always come back for more – and maybe there will even come a time when I'm able to arrange my day such that I can start getting them done earlier – but it's sure not in the cards just now.
Anyway, my head's starting to hurt a bit again, so I'm gonna go lie down and attempt to continue not being dead. Wish me luck!


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Published Jan 25, 2012
On January 12, 2012 The ATA submitted the following comments in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's (OSTP) Request for Public Information on public access to scholarly articles. All responses will be ultimately be made public on the OSTP website.
Comments submitted to the Office of Science and Technology Request for Information
January 12, 2012
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm writing today on behalf of the more than 100 organizations that comprise the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy's Request for Information (RFI) dated November 3, 2011, seeking input on the issue of Public Access to Scholarly Publications Resulting from Federally Funded Research.
About the Alliance
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA) is a coalition of advocacy, academic, research, and publishing organizations that supports open public access to the results of federally funded research. The Alliance was formed in 2004 to urge that peer-reviewed articles stemming from taxpayer-funded research become fully accessible and available online at no additional cost to the American public.
The diverse members of the coalition are committed to the general principle that American taxpayers are entitled to open access on the Internet to the articles that result from research funded by the U.S. government, and that facilitating broad access to these articles is an essential, inseparable our nation's investment in science. ATA members firmly believe that this (and other scientific information) should be shared in cost-effective ways that take advantage of the Internet, stimulate further discovery and innovation, and advance the translation of this knowledge into public benefits. Enhanced access and expanded sharing of information will lead to increased use of this information, and will deliver an accelerated return on the taxpayers' investment.
As 41 Nobel Prize-winning scientists wrote in an open letter to the U.S. Congress:
"For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible… As the pursuit of science is increasingly conducted in a digital world, we need policies that ensure that the opportunities the Internet presents for new research tools and techniques to be employed can be fully exploited. The removal of access barriers and the enabling of expanded use of research findings has the potential to dramatically transform how we approach issues of vital importance to the public, such as biomedicine,
climate change, and energy research."
We thank the Office of Science and Technology Policy for organizing this important discussion. The Alliance shares the Administration's view that enhancing access to this information will promote advances in science and technology, encourage innovative use and application of government-supported research, and fuel commercial development and economic growth. The Alliance supports the implementation of government-wide public access policies to facilitate the sharing of scientific results, and make this level of access a reality. To maximize the taxpayer's return on our nation's investment, such a policy should ensure that all members of the public are able to immediately access and fully reuse digital articles reporting on the results. The Alliance supports building on the successful framework of the NIH Public Access Policy, and recommends that an expanded policy include the following components:
Our responses to the specific questions in the RFI follow below.
1. Are there steps that agencies could take to grow existing and new markets related to the access and analysis of peer-reviewed publications that result from federally funded scientific research? How can policies for archiving publications and making them publicly accessible be used to grow the economy and improve the productivity of the scientific enterprise? What are the relative costs and benefits of such policies? What type of access to these publications is required to maximize U.S. economic growth and improve the productivity of the American scientific enterprise?
Encouraging Commercialization
Articles reporting on the results of taxpayer-funded research are an important component of our nation's research output. To create the optimal environment to encourage such commercialization, the complete collection of full-text articles reporting on publicly funded research should be made immediately, freely available to the public1. Members of the public must also be ensured the rights to fully use these articles without commercial restriction.
Enabling Open Access2 to these articles will accelerate the ability of individuals and companies to construct new services and products, and ensure that the value of the public's investment in this research is fully realized. It will create a business climate where all stakeholders can apply ideas generated from this research more quickly, speeding the launch of new products, services and new markets.
The publishing industry is well-positioned to be among the primary beneficiaries of opening access to articles reporting on publicly funded research results. Creating a body of articles openly available to the public creates the opportunity for individuals and companies to add value to the research through the creation of new tools and services for searching, text mining, data mining, indexing, translation, and other services. These new services create the opportunity for new jobs (and new tax revenue) to be generated – directly stimulating both innovation and economic growth.
This kind of business development is already happening in areas where a significant number of open-access articles exist. Companies such as Mendeley, which offers integrated academic search and peer recommendations built on a collection of open-access papers, are rapidly achieving success, with Mendeley boasting a user base of over one million individuals in just two years of operation.3
Additionally, a robust new market of open-access journals -- journals that make their content freely available to all users, with no restrictions for reuse other than appropriate attribution to the author – is also flourishing. More than 7,300 open-access journals are currently being published in a broad spectrum of disciplines.4 Innovative companies, such as the U.S.-based Public Library of Science (a member of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access), have lead the way in demonstrating the financial viability -- and desirability -- of this new publishing model. The growth of this new market segment has been so dramatic that a new trade association, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) has now been established to help promote its further development.5
While creating new markets and business models in the publishing industry is one important outcome of a public-access policy, it is important to remember that it is part of a larger goal: to encourage the use of publicly funded research to spur increased commercialization in other business sectors. Creating a government-wide policy that results in an openly accessible database (or set of databases) of publicly funded articles will provide opportunities for companies of all kinds to build on this information. This is particularly true for industries such as biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry, where the ability to interact with leading-edge research results is part of the lifeblood of the company. They (and their investors) count on these resources to be able to deploy a research and development strategy that keeps them on the cutting edge of new ideas and knowledge, so that they can translate these ideas quickly into marketable products and services.
Improving Scientific Productivity
Besides providing an environment in which commercialization can be optimized, ensuring full open access to articles reporting on the results of taxpayer funded research can also play an important role in improving scientific productivity. The research community has long recognized the opportunity that providing immediate, barrier-free, online access presents to researchers to work faster, by enabling them to get to research articles and incorporate new findings into their research more rapidly. In biomedical disciplines, for example, the need to rapidly collect, evaluate and understand the work of colleagues is readily apparent. Taxpayers fund basic biomedical research with the expectations that it will lead to new discoveries, and ultimately, to new treatments and cures. Expediting this process is directly in the best interest of the taxpayer.
Ensuring open access to scientific articles can also help scientists to incorporate more information into their work more efficiently. With the continued increase in papers generated from scientific research, enabling an open-access environment where computers can serve as a new category of reader of publicly funded research papers is essential.
In biomedicine alone there are currently more than 19 million citations and abstracts covered by the National Library of Medicine's search engine, PubMed. These include ~830,000 articles published in 2009, up from 814,000 in 2008 and 772,000 in 2007.6 The growth rate gives no indications of slowing, particularly as emerging economies like India, China and Brazil continue to accelerate their research outputs. Researchers need to be able to employ new semantic and computational tools to contextualize ideas contained in papers, identify new relationships, and significantly expand the breadth of research threads that they can effectively pursue. A government-wide policy that facilitates the creation of an open-access environment will also allow – and encourage -- more people to participate in the scientific research process at many levels. Researchers in a variety of disciplines are already using open-access environments (for both data and publications) to help them expand their pool of collaborators in specific research areas, as well as to help create new pathways to solutions.
In Alzheimer's research, experts (led by Neil Buckholtz, chief of the Dementias of Aging Branch of the Division of Neuroscience at the U.S. National Institute on Aging, and Dr. William Potter, a neuroscientist at Eli Lilly) established the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a novel, public-private collaboration that posts all of its data on Alzheimer's on an open public Web site. ADNI has made thousands of brain scan images and clinical and neuropsychological data available to researchers around the world, and has generated a wealth of new research papers, as well as more than 100 new studies testing drugs that may slow or stop the disease.7 The ADNI model is already being replicated other areas, most notably in Parkinson's disease research.8
Along with increasing the sheer number of participants, an open-access research environment also increases the diversity of participants in the research process. It helps to promote access and reuse of information by researchers in loosely related (or even unrelated) fields that might not otherwise have access to the full corpus of research articles. This increases the value of our scientific research investment, by increasing the efficacy of scientific discovery. In the Autism community, Sophia Colamarino (Stanford University Medical School, and former Vice President for Research at Autism Speaks, also an Alliance member organization) has spoken eloquently from the patient advocacy and researcher funding perspectives. She notes that, because there is no routine treatment for Autism, families are routinely responsible for learning about therapies and treatments that may be appropriate for them.
Her experience has shown that while families are inundated with information from a variety of sources, what is most easily available may not always be credible. Because of the barriers that subscription and pay-per-view pay walls present, families have easy access to all but the most scientifically valid information.9 Providing immediate, barrier-free access to articles that report on the results of taxpayer-funded research access empowers family members and caregivers to be better, more informed advocates, and gives them a positive outlet by allowing them to participate in progress first hand. Barriers to accessing published research literature cause families to struggle – unnecessarily – to find the most rigorous data necessary to make informed decisions.
Costs and Benefits
The potential costs and benefits of taxpayer access to publicly funded research articles are of deep interest to the Alliance. Many helpful sources of data are available to draw on -- in particular, the data provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), whose successful publicaccess policy already ensures full accessibility to articles reporting on the results of the ~$30 billion of basic and applied research that it funds annually.
This policy, which covers approximately one half of the total U.S. annual investment in scientific research, has proven to be extremely cost-effective. NIH reports that it costs $3.5- $4.6 million annually (on a total $30-billion budget) to administer its public-access policy. This represents an investment of only about 1/100th of one percent of the NIH's overall $30 billion operating budget to ensure that the 90,000-95,000 articles generated annually to report on NIH-funded research are readily accessible to all potential users.10 The NIH also reports a deep demand for these articles, with more than 500,000 unique users from all sectors of the public accessing the PubMed Central database each day to view and retrieve articles.11 Many of these users are members of the 100+ organizations represented by the Alliance. An effective, government-wide public-access policy can likewise be implemented in a cost-effective manner, by leveraging this existing infrastructure to minimize unneeded duplication of efforts, and utilizing the investments already made by the NIH.
Significant economic research has been done, in the U.S. as well as internationally, on costbenefit analyses of various policy approaches to ensuring greater access to articles reporting on the results of publicly funded research. Detailed economic analyses have been conducted on proposed national policies in Australia, the U.K., the Netherlands and elsewhere, providing sound methodologies for policy makers to use in considering the potential impact of such policies. These studies have consistently demonstrated that the adoption of policies to encourage the open sharing of research results – including scientific articles – has a significant economic upside for national economies.12
Perhaps most germane for the purposes of this RFI is the 2010 study conducted by Houghton et al., examining the potential impacts of opening up access to articles reporting on the results of all U.S. federally funded scientific research, under a policy similar to that of the current NIH Public Access Policy. Houghton and his colleagues examined both the costs and potential returns to the public investment in R&D, and provide a working model to be used for further testing and refining estimates as additional data becomes available.13
The initial Houghton et al. modeling suggests that providing open access to all articles reporting on U.S. scientific research under a model similar to the current NIH policy would (very conservatively) result in at least a five-fold increase in ROI, with the benefits of the policy estimated to be approximately 8 times larger than the costs. They further estimate that the net present value gains of expanding an NIH-style policy to all other U.S. science agencies over time would be on the order of $1.5 billion (net the costs of running the archive). Of that number, approximately 60% is estimated to accrue directly to the U.S. economy.14 The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is strongly supportive of a policy that pursues such an approach.
2. What specific steps can be taken to protect the intellectual property interests of publishers, scientists, federal agencies, and other stakeholders involved with the publication and dissemination of peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from federally funded scientific research?
To best support the goals of accelerating scientific discovery, innovation and the creation of new markets, any public-access policy should ensure not only full accessibility of scientific articles, but also full utility of the articles in the digital environment.
The Alliance supports the creation of a government-wide public-access policy that works within the current copyright framework by requiring full open access to articles reporting on the results of federally funded research under a mechanism such as the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)15 license. This kind of an approach is consistent with protecting the copyrights of both authors and publishers.
While the NIH Public Access Policy provides an excellent benchmark for most aspects of government-wide policy, it can be substantially improved upon is in the area of rights retention. The Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT)16 grant program provides a more appropriate exemplar. The TAACCCT program requires that grant recipients license content created from grant funds under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. This framework ensures broad access and reuse for anyone wishing to utilize this federally funded research output, while also ensuring that proper credit is given to the author.17
Additionally, taxpayers also need access to these articles sooner than the current term of copyright allows. Ideally, articles reporting on the results of publicly funded research should be made accessible to the public immediately upon appearance in a journal. However, an initial interim, phased approach might prove a practical way forward. This type of approach might be constructed to include:
It should be the explicit goal of any government-wide public-access policy to make the results of federally funded research as useful to taxpayers as possible. Broad reuse allows both researchers and businesses to unlock additional value from our public research investment – now, and for decades to come. Restrictions that limit how users can work with these digital articles will result in only a fraction of their value being delivered, and unnecessarily reduce the subsequent return to the taxpayer.
3. What are the pros and cons of centralized and decentralized approaches to managing public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded research in terms of interoperability, search, development of analytic tools, and other scientific and commercial opportunities?
The federal government is the appropriate entity to provide permanent stewardship of these articles, and is in a unique position to ensure that publicly funded articles are made permanently accessible, and useable. To ensure this, any public-access policy that is developed must give the federal government adequate rights to archive and distribute articles reporting on publicly funded research. Currently, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) appropriately fulfills this crucial role for articles generated by NIH-funded research by housing articles in their PubMed Central (PMC) digital repository.
NLM has indicated18 that they are willing to expand their role and accept articles from any other federal science agency, providing an immediate, cost-effective potential solution to taxpayers. Alternatively, NLM has also indicated that the software supporting PubMed Central is freely available in the public domain, and was explicitly designed in a modular form to be easily shared with other entities that might wish to use it. This option provides another cost-effective mechanism that ensures the interoperability of multiple federal agency archives.
This type of approach does not preclude other, non-governmental entities from participating as partners in a decentralized approach. An effective federal public-access policy could involve multiple repositories maintained by third parties, as long as those repositories support access and use conditions that allow all interested parties to build on the content contained in them.
Repositories that meet conditions for public accessibility, unrestricted use rights, interoperability and long-term preservation of articles can play an important role, encouraging innovative publicprivate partnerships.
Having the federal government retain custody of a master copy of these articles is critical in minimizing the possibility of exclusive arrangement that inhibit the ability the widest possible community of stakeholders and businesses to use these articles, and ensure that new services and products can be readily built from them, enhancing the taxpayer's return on their investment.
4. Are there models or new ideas for public-private partnerships that take advantage of existing publisher archives and encourage innovation in accessibility and interoperability, while ensuring long-term stewardship of the results of federally funded research?
Public-private partnerships can play an important role in leveraging the unique capabilities of a broad range of potential service providers, and create opportunities for the development of new products and services to built on publicly funded information. A key aim of the America COMPETES Act (whose goals this RFI has been issued to facilitate achieving) is to improve the competitiveness of the United States through investment in research and development. As such, it is critical that any public-private partnerships be constructed to ensure that all potential service providers have an equal opportunity to participate. The Alliance firmly believes that under no condition should any one site, organization or company be the single point of access for taxpayer-funded articles.
This is particularly important as it relates to small businesses that may experience difficulty with entering markets given access conditions or restrictive copyright/reuse provisions. Constructing a partnership that unfairly advantages a limited number of participants will result in a less competitive environment, rather than facilitating the kind of environment that encourages robust participation by all stakeholders.
The Alliance notes that the publishing community is only one stakeholder group whose interests must be considered in this context. The federal government should also carefully consider the other potential partners, particularly libraries, archives, and higher education institutions. These organizations have experience in access to (and preservation of) information, and also have a wealth of experience and existing infrastructure that can be leveraged. Developing a public access policy that includes roles for these kinds of organizations would greatly increase prospects for the viability and long-term sustainability of such partnerships.
5. What steps can be taken by federal agencies, publishers, and/or scholarly and professional societies to encourage interoperable search, discovery, and analysis capacity across disciplines and archives? What are the minimum core metadata for scholarly publications that must be made available to the public to allow such capabilities? How should federal agencies make certain that such minimum core metadata associated with peer-reviewed publications resulting from federally funded scientific research are publicly available to ensure that these publications can be easily found and linked to federal science funding?
Metadata enables the interoperability, search, discovery and analysis of articles reporting on federally funded research, and should also be used enable specific actions that can be taken on digital articles, as well. To be as useful as possible, metadata associated with federally funded articles must be both machine readable and machine-interoperable, and should facilitate the robust use, reuse and analysis of digital articles.
The Alliance recommends working closely with experts in the university library and digital repository communities, as well as other expert organizations to build out a minimum core set of metadata. While we understand that Dublin Core is the current standard in this regard, we also understand that this will only enable the minimum amount of discovery and download to take place. Broader metadata specifications are needed to make full use of the information contained in federally funded articles and to active the aims of the federal government of improving scientific productivity and accelerating commercialization.
To maximize the value of this information, additional metadata is needed to also facilitate archiving and preservation, and to encourage the development of new services (such as text mining, visualizations, etc.). It is important to ensure that any metadata standard or framework not only meets current needs, but is also flexible and extensible enough to support potential future uses. This is particularly critical to ensure that connections between articles and digital data can be supported.
Close consultation with established entities that are working on standards and best practices in this area, such as NISO and the Library of Congress, will also be helpful and should be actively pursued.
6. How can Federal agencies that fund science maximize the benefit of public access policies to U.S. taxpayers, and their investment in the peer-reviewed literature, while minimizing burden and costs for stakeholders, including awardee institutions, scientists,
publishers, Federal agencies, and libraries?
The benefit of public-access policies to U.S. taxpayers can be maximized by making the complete collection of full-text articles reporting on federally funded scientific research immediately, freely accessible to the public. Taxpayers also must be guaranteed rights to fully use these articles without commercial restriction. The federal government should provide longterm stewardship over the repositories that house these articles, in partnership with organizations such as libraries and archives. Access conditions and reuse rights that at most require author attribution (Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY license or similar) must also be clearly articulated, to enhance scientific productivity and encourage the full range of potential stakeholders to build secondary services and generate new products and markets from this content.
For any public-access policy to be successful, there must be consistency of requirements and of implementation across all federal agencies. Creating multiple, disparate access policies – or even compliance requirements – for different federal science agencies would introduce needless confusion and expense into the system, and greatly increase the compliance burden on the grantee and their home institution.
Uniform requirements and procedures regarding deposit of peer-reviewed articles should be established across all federal agencies covered by a public-access policy to reduce the cost and complexity of compliance.
Effective implementation strategies that minimize the burden on the researcher can also play an important role in maximizing the returns to the taxpayer, by raising compliance rates and ensuring that the complete corpus of articles reporting on federally funded research is widely available in a timely manner. This will have the added benefit of supporting informed, transparent, science-based federal budget and policy decision making by increasing federal agency accountability and providing agencies with an improved accounting on the outcomes of their funded research. It will also give Congressional budget drafters, appropriators, and authorizers better information to accurately assess the value of existing expenditures, and to target funding on the most promising research areas.
Any federal public-access policy should also be constructed in a way that encourages the development of additional tools and services to facilitate both the work of the researcher, and the federal agency. Encouraging the integration of articles with agency (and home institution) grant management systems is an important potential way to improve agency accountability, as well as to provide increased information to the public on the results of the research that their tax dollars support.
An effective public-access policy centered on creating accessible databases of research articles can also create opportunities to build productivity management tools – like enhanced bibliographies or Principle Investigator (PI) Profiles – that are of wide use to researchers, institutions, and federal agencies, further leveraging the value of the taxpayers investment in scientific research.
7. Besides scholarly journal articles, should other types of peer-reviewed publications resulting from federally funded research, such as book chapters and conference proceedings, be covered by these public access policies?
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access firmly believes in the that principle that taxpayers have the right to the results of publicly funded research – and that this right applies to all outputs of research, from data and articles, to educational materials (book chapters, texts, conference proceedings, etc). We believe that these outputs resulting from publicly funded research should also be made readily accessible to the public. However, we recognize that different conditions and expectations apply to different types of outputs. For example, authors are not paid for journal articles, but may in fact be compensated for the creation of book chapters. Data sets may contain confidential or personal information that may not be appropriate for unrestricted access or reuse. Access policies that reflect these differences while holding true to the basic principle of public access may need to be constructed.
8. What is the appropriate embargo period after publication before the public is granted free access to the full content of peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from federally funded research? Please describe the empirical basis for the recommended embargo period. Analyses that weigh public and private benefits and account for external market factors, such as competition, price changes, library budgets, and other factors, will be particularly useful. Are there evidence-based arguments that can be made that the delay period should be different for specific disciplines or types of publications?
To optimize their scientific and commercial utility, articles reporting on the results of federally funded research should be made immediately available to the public in freely accessible digital repositories. The federal government should also consider providing support to cover reasonable publication fees for those authors who opt to publish their articles full open-access journals (those that are immediately freely accessible, and enable full reuse rights such as those supported by the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license).
Given the rapid growth in the number of open-access journals, and the increasing adoption of the open-access model by publishers across the journal marketplace, we note that the use of embargoes only benefits one subset of publishers that use a very specific, subscription-dependent revenue model. Open-access publishers, whose business models replace subscription fees with article processing fees, institutional subsidies, advertising, and other revenue streams, have very different revenue models, and receive no clear benefit from embargoes of any length. However, to accommodate those journal publishers who choose to continue to rely on subscription income, an author-determined embargo period that is as short as possible – preferably 6 months -- could be considered.
The discussion of the inclusion of embargoes in public-access policies often centers exclusively on their potential to protect publisher revenues. However, since one of the goals of an effective federal public-access policy is to balance the needs of all stakeholders, it is also important to consider the impact of embargoes on other stakeholders. Embargoes of any length come with a cost in terms of decreased public access and a negative impact on the degree to which an article's availability fosters further research and development.19
Some publishers have argued that public-access policies -- including the NIH Public Access Policy, which includes a lengthy 12-month embargo period – will discourage individuals and institutions to subscribe to journals, and cause them financial harm. The Alliance believes that any data provided by publishers documenting such a negative impact should be carefully considered; however, we know of no studies that directly examine this hypothesis nor any documented examples of journals whose financial viability has been significantly damaged by public-access policies.
In examining the length of embargo periods currently in use, a maximum embargo period of six months has emerged as the norm among biomedical research funders, with the NIH an outlier allowing 12 months. In other disciplines, embargoes of maximum 12 months are most prevalent in research funder policies around the globe.20 This is also consistent with the current voluntary practices of many publishers. Highwire Press, one of the premier online hosting services for scholarly journals, currently lists hundreds of journals in a variety of disciplines that make their articles freely accessible after a 12-month (or shorter) embargo period.21
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access, with its diverse membership of consumer groups, patient groups, universities, students, and library organizations, strongly supports the establishment of policies that ensure fast, free, public access to the results of research funded by our tax dollars.
We believe that the NIH played an important leadership role in establishing a clear, successful blueprint for public accessibility to the results of its publicly funded research. We note that many other research funders around the world – both public and private – have established policies that share many of the characteristics of the NIH Public Access Policy, and encourage the U.S. federal government to implement an expanded version of the NIH policy to all other federal Science agencies in an expeditious manner.
On behalf of the Alliance, we look forward to working with you to help ensure that the public's investment in research is maximized to the fullest extent. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Heather Joseph
Alliance for Taxpayer Access
1 It is important to note that the full text of peer-reviewed articles must be made accessible -- not merely abstracts,
summaries, or un-peer reviewed grant reports -- for the full value of these articles to be leveraged by the public.
2 http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read
3 http://www.mendeley.com/our-users/
4 http://www.doaj.org
5 http://www.oaspa.org/
6 http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100127/full/463416a.html
7 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html
8 http://www.michaeljfox.org/living_PPMI.cfm
9 http://www.berlin9.org/bm~doc/berlin9-colamarino.pdf
10 http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2010/07/t20100729c.html
11 http://olpa.od.nih.gov/hearings/111/session2/Testimonies/PublicAccess.pdf
12 http://www.cfses.com/projects/Easi-OA.htm
13 Economic and Social Returns on Investment in Open Archiving Publicly Funded Research Outputs, Houghton et
al. (2010)
14 Op. cit.
15 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
16 http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-03.pdf
17 http://epsiplatform.eu/content/topic-report-no-23-creative-commons-and-public-sector-inforation-flexible-toolssupport-
18 http://olpa.od.nih.gov/hearings/111/session2/Testimonies/PublicAccess.pdf
19 Houghton, Rassmusen and Sheehan, page 8. 2010
20 http://www.roarmap.org
21 http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl


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Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886-July 30, 1918) was an American poet; his best-known work is "Trees". The poem is notable for its anthropomorphism: the tree in the poem presses its mouth to the earth's breast and looks at God and raises its leafy arms to pray. The poem was given a musical setting that was quite popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
Kilmer was killed in action by a sniper during World War I and is buried in the Oise-Aisne Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, France.
The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.


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LIMA, Ohio (AP) -- Investigators say 10 people in northwest Ohio have been charged in a day care fraud scheme that cost the state thousands of dollars.
The Ohio Attorney General's office says three people operating four day cares in the Lima area were illegally billing the state for day care services.
An investigator with the state told The Lima News that they found no children were at the centers. The state says workers at the centers also were receiving pay without having to work.
Investigators say the 10 who are charged worked together to submit inaccurate billing sheets
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Some stories write themselves, or so they say. Some feel too big for you when you sit down in front of a blank screen. I have known Joannie Rochette for many years and couldn't imagine what she was going through — and like everyone else, was blown away by her ability to compartmentalize her mom's death and still do her job on the ice. She was in tears and could only send the briefest of messages to the media, after her Feb. 23, 2010 skate, but luckily the Canadian team's chef de mission, Nathalie Lambert, was standing 30 feet away from my seat in the press box when I was heading back to write, and she gave me the quotes that made the column.
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There was no road map for the lonely territory Joannie Rochette had to cross Tuesday night.
No sports psychologist, among the many who worked with Canadian Olympians in the lead-up to the Games, could have prepared her for having the moment she'd waited for all her life arrive amid the terrible grief of her mother's death two days earlier.
The capacity crowd at Pacific Coliseum would have gladly rushed onto the ice and carried the 24-year-old from Ile-Dupas, Que., through the two minutes and 50 seconds of her short program, but a figure skater must literally face the music alone, in the middle of a vast white surface, and try to carve something memorable out of the ice in the time allotted.
So Joannie Rochette stood there, letting the fans' warmth wash over her, knowing that when it grew quiet, she would have to do this thing, all by herself.
And she did it all, every jump, every spin, every flourish to the Uruguayan tango La Cumparsita, whose lyrics begin: "The little parade of endless miseries ..."
Only when it was over would she let the grief take over, and she crumpled into the arms of her coach, Manon Perron, and wept uncontrollably while her marks came up.
On a night when Japan's Mao Asada and Korean world champion Yu-Na Kim had pretty much brought the house down with back-to-back works of art — Asada with the Olympics' first-ever triple Axel combination by a woman leading off what might have been her best-ever skate; Kim answering right back with her matchless combination of textbook technique and show-stopping artistry — there was little chance of Rochette equalling their firepower.
But she is right there for a medal, sitting third heading into Thursday's long program, and with everything that must have been swirling through her mind, it was one of the most remarkable performances any Canadian skater has ever laid down.
Looking composed and focused as soon as she took the ice for warmup, nothing changed in her routine, and she opened with a perfect triple Lutz-double toe loop combination to show that her nerves were fully under control. She followed with a solid triple flip, then a double Axel, a wonderful footwork sequence, and emoted to the music and was rewarded with her season's best score, 71.36 points.
She's distantly in third, but also comfortably ahead of fourth-place Miki Ando of Japan.
"Words cannot describe it," Rochette said, in quotes relayed through Skate Canada's high performance director Mike Slipchuk. "It's hard to be precise. I have no regrets.
"It was a very nice, warm welcome. Hard to handle, but I appreciate the support. I will remember this forever."
Nathalie Lambert, the Canadian Olympic team's chef de mission, had predicted "a wind of love" from the audience when Rochette stepped on the ice Tuesday, and she was not wrong.
"If she doesn't skate, we'll love her. If she does skate, and does well, we'll love her, and if she does skate and doesn't do well, we'll love her," Lambert told a reporter the other day. "And that's the most important thing."
But when the moment came, the result did matter. The crowd was pulling so fervently for her, she couldn't have helped but feel it.
"I was thinking, 'Please let it be perfect and let it be exactly what she is hoping for, and let the music finish before anything bad happens,'" said Lambert. "It's a very tough week for her, the toughest of her life, it's already something really hard to cope with just the stress and uniqueness of the Olympics – and on top of this, to have to cope with the grief … and from the first minute, I think she handled it extremely well.
"I think she wanted to do well tonight — both for herself and for her mother. As an athlete, you can't get to the place where she is right now without the support of your family, and more often than not, your mother is your No. 1 fan, and this was very much the case for her.
"And so this was the Olympic dream for the whole family, and she just wants to live it. I think she held it together until she was finished, and then that's the moment when you realize your mother was not there to watch it — and she came here for that. "
But if none of the possible outcomes really mattered to anyone else, once Therese Rochette passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning, they still mattered to her daughter, who was awakened gently by her father, Normand, at 6 a.m. to tell her the awful news.
She didn't want a free pass from the butterflies and the pressure. And she didn't shy from it. She couldn't have dreamed that the moment she had waited for all her life would be so big, and so complicated. But wherever she found the strength, she got the job done.
"When she took to the ice, she looked like the Joannie we've known and grown with," said Slipchuk. "She was as good as she's been all year. That's just a testament to her, to be able to get herself in the right frame of mind, in the moment, and do it."
And now that the dam has burst, and Joannie Rochette has finally let herself feel the pain?
"I think we all saw all the emotion that was in there, and this was a big step for her tonight," said Slipchuk. "We've got a couple of days now. I know she'll be ready for Thursday."
View related Olympic Memories videos below from some of Canada's top athletes.
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Roberto Luongo had an interesting view of Sidney Crosby's winning goal in the men's hockey final at the 2010 Olympics: he was in goal, at the opposite end of the ice.
View video: Olympic Memories: Kristie Moore — Silver, women's curling
The alternate on Canada's silver-medal winning women's curling team, Kristie Moore was five months pregnant when she competed at the 2010 Olympic Games. She was only the third pregnant athlete in Olympic history.
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Sidney Crosby may have scored the game-winning goal that gave Canada gold in men's hockey, but it wouldn't have happened if not for Jarome Iginla, who set him up. The Calgary Flame reflects on the biggest assist of his career.
View video: Olympic Memories: Jon Montgomery — Gold, skeleton
Jon Montgomery became an instant hero in Canada when he won gold in men's skeleton at the 2010 Olympic Games - and drank from a pitcher of beer as he strolled through Whistler.
View video: Olympic Memories: Shannon Szabados — Gold, women's hockey
Shannon Szabados, goalie for the Canadian women's hockey team, describes what it was like to be on the ice as her team won gold at the Olympic Games.
View video: Olympic Memories: Patrick Chan — Fifth, figure skating
Figure skater Patrick Chan finished fifth at the Olympic Games but believes in retrospect that missing the podium may have made him a better skater today.
View video: Olympic Memories: Scott Moir — Gold, dance, figure skating
Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's gold medal performance so sweet, so perfect. In the nine Olympic Games since ice dancing made its debut in 1976, 17 of 27 medals ˆ and all but two golds, had gone to Russian, Soviet or quasi-Soviet teams.
View video: Olympic Memories: Tessa Virtue — Gold, dance, figure skating
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir were the first North American team ever to win the Olympic ice dancing gold medal. The joined the very short list of Canadians who have ever come away from an Olympics with gold medals in figure skating.
View video: Olympic Memories: Maelle Ricker — Gold, women's snowboardcross
North Vancouver native Maelle Ricker fulfilled a lifetime dream by winning gold in women's snowboardcross on her home hill, Cypress Mountain. She became the first woman ˜ and first British Columbian ˜ to win an Olympic gold medal on home soil.
View video: Olympic Memories: Kevin Martin — Gold, men's curling
Kevin Martin delivered the winning shot to claim gold for the Canadian team. Martin is among the greatest curlers ever as a four-time Canadian champ and holds world and Olympic titles.
View video: Olympic Memories: Jennifer Heil — Silver, women's moguls
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View video: Olympic Memories: Francois-Louis Tremblay — Bronze, 500 metres, Gold, relay
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View video: Olympic Memories: Kallie Humphries — Gold, women's bobsleigh with Heather Moyse
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View video: Olympic Memories: Clara Hughes — Flagbearer, bronze -- 5,000 m speedskating
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View video: Olympic Memories: Denny Morrison — Gold, men's team pursuit
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View video: Olympic Memories: Kristina Groves — Silver and bronze, 1,500m and 3,000m speedskating
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A day before Andrew Bynum produced one of the most eye-popping defensive performances in NBA playoff history, he spoke up to his Lakers teammates about the importance of getting off to a good start in their championship quest.
With an NBA record-tying 10 blocked shots, the 7-foot All-Star center put the Lakers on the good foot — and the Denver Nuggets on their heels.
Kobe Bryant scored 31 points, Bynum posted the Lakers' first playoff triple-double in 21 years, and Los Angeles thoroughly controlled the tempo in a playoff-opening 103-88 victory Sunday.
Despite a few well-chronicled fluctuations in his motivation and discipline this year, the seventh-year pro had perfect focus in Game 1, capping his utter dominance in the paint with his record-tying block of Timofey Mozgov with 3:02 to play. Bynum also had 10 points and 13 rebounds before checking out to an ovation.
"It's the only way really possible for me to get a triple-double — through blocked shots," Bynum said of his first career triple-double. "If I play good D, we'll win games. I think I'm just going to be as aggressively as I can defensively to contest their shots. … You've got to win Game 1. Statistics are against the teams that lose Game 1, especially on the home court."
Game 2 is Tuesday night.
Just how dominant were Bynum and his tall teammates against the NBA's highest-scoring team? Bynum blocked 11 percent of the Nuggets' 90 shots, and with 15 total blocks, Lakers swatted one of every six Denver shots, separating the Nuggets from any hope of a late rally.
"His timing was impeccable today," Bryant said of Bynum. "He really understood the rhythm of their offensive players. He was just there at the exact moment, either to change or block the shot."
While Bynum had the Lakers' first playoff triple-double since Magic Johnson in the 1991 NBA finals, fellow 7-footer Pau Gasol added 13 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the playoff-tested Lakers, who never trailed while forcing Denver to play Los Angeles' preferred half-court style.
Bynum blocked eight shots in the first three quarters before surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's franchise-record nine blocks in the fourth. He eventually equaled the NBA record set by Utah's Mark Eaton on April 26, 1985, and matched by Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon on April 29, 1990.
"We've got to find a way to score before he gets in the paint, because he's impressive," said Danilo Gallinari, who led Denver with 19 points.
For coach Mike Brown, who has mostly enjoyed his first year riding the roller coaster of Bynum's emotions and motivation, the game showed why these Lakers could go deep into June.
"He can control a game without shooting a single shot," Brown said. "He has 10 blocks, but I'd be curious to know how many (shots) he changed. He changed a gazillion shots in the paint, and that's what Denver is very good at. He was phenomenal tonight, and if he continues to play like he did, being the type of monster he was tonight patrolling that paint, we'll be playing a long time."
But Denver coach George Karl got a jump start on lobbying the officials for help against Bynum in Game 2.
"(Bynum) was playing a nice illegal defense," Karl said. "He was zoned up good. I think we got one illegal defense (call against Los Angeles). I saw about 30 of them. … The shot-blocker probably beat us."
The sixth-seeded Nuggets won eight of 10 to reach the postseason, but most of their fears about this playoff matchup were realized. Andre Miller had 12 points, eight rebounds and seven assists while helping out Ty Lawson, Denver's leading scorer, who managed just seven points while failing to make a shot in the first three quarters for the NBA's second-youngest playoff roster.
Ramon Sessions had 14 points and five assists in his first career playoff game for the third-seeded Lakers, who lost last year's postseason opener to New Orleans.
Devin Ebanks even scored 12 points in the first half while starting his first career playoff game in place of suspended Metta World Peace. The Lakers didn't miss their defensive stopper while forcing most of Denver's key contributors into poor games.
"I don't think we were intimidated," Gallinari said. "They played their game plan better than we played our game plan. … This first game, we were overthinking too much. One of the best things we do is just be aggressive and don't think too much."
Bryant scored 23 points in the second half to open the 15th playoff campaign of his 16-year career. The third-leading scorer in NBA playoff history hadn't played in a week, sitting out the Lakers' last game alongside Gasol and Bynum to keep his high-mileage legs fresh.
Sessions and Ebanks both made their playoff debuts, while Brown coached the Lakers in their first playoff game at Staples Center, which opened in 1999, without Phil Jackson commanding their bench from his oversized chair.
NOTES: Jordan Hill had another surprisingly strong game off the bench, contributing 10 points and 10 rebounds to the Lakers. … Bynum blocked seven shots on June 6, 2010, in Game 2 of the NBA Finals against Boston in his previous playoff high. … The Lakers handed out white T-shirts reading "One at a Time," but in a Staples Center tradition, most of the crowd declined to wear them. … Fans in attendance included Megan Fox, David Beckham, Meagan Good and Brian Austin Green.